About Mondelez International, Inc.
Mondelez International, Inc., through its subsidiaries, manufactures, markets, and sells snack food and beverage products in Latin America, North America, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. The company provides biscuits and baked snacks, including cookies, crackers, salted snacks, snack bars, and cakes and pastries; chocolates; and gums and candies, as well as various cheese, grocery, and powdered beverage products. Its brand portfolio includes Oreo, Ritz, LU, CLIF Bar, Tate's Bake Shop biscuits and baked snacks, Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka, and Toblerone chocolate. It serves supermarket chains, wholesalers, supercenters, club stores, mass merchandisers, distributors, convenience stores, gasoline stations, drug stores, value stores, and other retail food outlets through direct store delivery, company-owned and satellite warehouses, distribution centers, third-party distributors, and other facilities, as well as through independent sales offices and agents. The company also sells products directly to businesses and consumers through e-retail platforms, retailer digital platforms, as well as through its direct-to-consumer websites and social media platforms. Mondelez International, Inc. was formerly known as Kraft Foods Inc. and changed its name to Mondelez International, Inc. in October 2012. The company was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Mondelez International, Inc. (MDLZ) is a Consumer Defensive company in the Confectioners industry with a market capitalisation of $79.7B. The stock trades at 22.87x trailing earnings and yields 3.33%.
- Sector
- Consumer Defensive
- Industry
- Confectioners
- Market cap
- $79.7B
- P/E ratio
- 22.87
- Forward P/E
- 18.57
- EPS (TTM)
- $2.73
- Revenue (TTM)
- $39.7B
- Free cash flow
- $2.3B
- Profit margin
- 8.9%
- Dividend yield
- 3.33%
- Beta
- 0.40
- Shares outstanding
- 1.3B
Financial health: Fair6.8/10
5 strengths, 1 concern. Weakest points: current ratio.
- Debt to equity: 0.10 (Strong, benchmark < 0.5) — Debt of 0.10x equity is conservative against the 0.5x benchmark. It has deteriorated over the last 4 years.
- Net debt vs cash flow: 0.2y (Strong, benchmark < 4 years) — Net debt of $493.0M is 0.2x annual free cash flow — under a year of cash flow to repay.
- Current ratio: 0.59 (Concern, benchmark > 1.5) — Short-term assets cover only 0.59x short-term liabilities — below 1.0, meaning bills due this year exceed the assets on hand to pay them. It has been broadly flat over the last 4 years.
- Return on equity: 13.3% (Watch, benchmark > 15%) — Earns 13.3% on shareholder equity, short of the > 15% mark.
- Gross margin: 31.1% (Watch, benchmark > 40%) — Keeps 31.1% of revenue after the direct cost of sales, short of the > 40% mark.
- Net margin: 8.9% (Watch, benchmark > 10%) — Turns 8.9% of revenue into profit, short of the > 10% mark.
- Free cash flow: $3.2B (Strong, benchmark positive) — Generated $3.2B of free cash flow after capital spending. It has been broadly flat over the last 4 years.
- Revenue growth: 4.1% (Watch, benchmark > 10%) — Revenue changed 4.1% year on year, short of the > 10% mark.
- Earnings growth: 144.9% (Strong, benchmark > 10%) — Earnings changed 144.9% year on year, comfortably past the > 10% mark.
- PEG ratio: 0.92 (Strong, benchmark < 1) — At 0.92, the price looks cheap relative to expected growth — Lynch treated 1.0 as fair value.
- Payout ratio: 73.3% (Watch, benchmark < 60%) — Pays out 73.3% of earnings as dividends — above the level usually considered sustainable.